Multilink

[antonyjaison]

Hi All,

I would lke to go for multilinking on my links for load balancing. Can anybody confirm me whether it will affect my voice traffic. On my links around 70 % is voice .

Thanks.

Regards,

Jaison

[spremkumar]

Hi

If you are having Multilink in place already then i would suggest to check out for enabling LFI (Link Fragmentation and Interleaving) which is mainly designed keeping VOIP traffic in mind.

Also if you feel like getting or experincing detoriated voice qualite, you can always plan off for some qos techniques like LLQ in place which will be very much effective for your voice traffic..

if you havent done anything inline with multilink config better keep them load balanced using normal equal admin static routes.

Also you can lookout for per-destination packet load sharing insteat of per-packet which will affect or create problems in sequencing voice packets there in the destination.

regds

[antonyjaison]

Hi Prem,

Thanks for your reply..

I have not yet implemented MLP . I have three equel cost paths towards destination and running eigrp over there. As of now eigrp is doing per destination load balancing on these pipes. But sharing of load is not uniform since it is per destination. That is the reason planned to go for MLP. (per packet any way it will get affected my voice traffic)

Regards,

Jaison

[ogencheva]

Hello there.

I have kind of the same setup. A remote site connected over point-to-point T1. There is data, IP voice and IP video traffic go over the line. We are planning to add a second t1 as first one is saturated. I could not decide what is the best way to balance. I am thinking about EIGRP or PPP MLP. I think going per packet balancing would effect voice and video quality. Anyway, I was just wandering if you came up with any white papers, best practices or such.

Thanks, Olga